Quotes About Reflection

I want you to Slow down I just want it all To slow down; I want to make a forest Of a moment And live in that forest For ever Before you go

And we risk only ever looking above to the future or below to the past and never around at the infinite horizontal landscape of the present. The trouble with ladders is they give you no room to move around. Just room to fall.

Places are places and memories are memories and life is fucking life.

If men dream of the mystical. magical, immortal realms of angels ~ What is it then... That angels dream of?

I'm just a slow-emotion replay of somebody I used to be.

The most useful form of time travel would be to go back a year or two and rectify the mistakes we made.

As you're creating your story, think through where you'd want pauses. Try to put yourself in the listener's shoes–if you were the listener and you were being told your story, where would you want pauses?

The point of an exemplar is not that he or she is to be emulated, but that this person, in virtue of being farther along a path you aspire to go down, somehow understands you better than you understand yourself—at least at the beginning.

Visualize and re-experience it completely in your mind.

Visualization often helps with this. So, close your eyes for a moment and imagine being in the setting you want to share your story, and

the past is important to learn from, but not to live in. The future is important for your direction but not to be so consumed in that you can't enjoy the present.

Keep in mind that your past self does not exist anymore and your present self should realize that.

I wish I were a rose...that you might wear me for a buttonhole bouquet on your journey. But I wonder...would you throw the rose away when it faded?

For roughly the millionth time in his life he asked himself, Is there any way I can just ignore this and get on with my day? and he reflected that it was the minor slights that were the hardest to let pass.

Loosely translated Der schlechte Affe hasst seinen eigenen Geruch means that people are most deeply offended by moral failings that mirror their own.

people are most deeply offended by moral failings that mirror their own.

to acknowledge evil, without being consumed by it." Penny (Mouse), in "Set this House in Order

Something else that puzzles me about other people is that a lot of them don't know their purpose in life. This usually does bother them—more than not being able to remember being born, anyway—but I can't even imagine it. Part of knowing who I am is knowing why I am, and I've always known who I am, from the first moment.

It may not seem funny now, because it's happening to us, but centuries from this moment, people will laugh in wonder.

As a professional misanthrope, I believe that if you are going to hate a person, you ought to do it properly. You should go and live in his shoes for a while, and see at the end of it how much you hate yourself.

reduced after that episode to admitting, "I'm

We know you know the news we show you is demeaning, disgusting, pointless, and not really intended to inform. But we assume you'll be too embarrassed to admit you spend hours every day poring over content specifically designed to reenforce your point of view. In fact, you'll consume twice as much, rather than admit you don't like to be challenged.

The news was once a placid ritual designed to amp down the viewer's political reflex.

One must, I think, be struck more and more the longer one lives, to find how much in our present society a man's life of each day depends for its solidity and value upon whether he reads during that day, and far more still on what he reads during it.